May 09, 2024 United States
Uniti Group Inc. and Windstream Holdings II, LLC last week announced a merger agreement which combines Uniti's wholesale-owned fiber network with Windstream's Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) business. The companies note that this merger will create a "premier insurgent fiber provider in the US," to...
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May 07, 2024 United States
Kohler Co. and Platinum Equity announced this week that it has sold a majority stake in its energy unit to investment firm Platinum Equity and both companies have closed the transaction to establish Kohler Energy as a separate, independent business. "This strategic move allows Kohler to focus and...
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May 03, 2024 Canada
Candian monitoring service provider Armstrongs has unveiled a critical event monitoring data center will provide a primary home in Canada for all the receivers and storage of subscribers' data in Laval, Quebec. From this new campus, Amstrongs will be able to provide dedicated video monitoring and...
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May 02, 2024 United States
GPU cloud provider CoreWeave announced that it has secured $1.1 billion in new Series C funding round this week led by Coatue, with participation from Magnetar who led the last primary round, as well as Altimeter Capital, Fidelity Management & Research Company, and Lykos Global Management....
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May 01, 2024 United States
The US Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has unveiled its updated strategy for the next five years which will align the IT service provider of the Department of Defense (DoD) with the 2022 National Defense Strategy. “As a combat support agency and the premier IT service provider for the...
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May 01, 2024 United States
Atos-owned Eviden has announced a new server line called BullSequana AI product line. This product line includes five AI server models that the company says have been optimized for AI workloads, all offering different levels of performance, scalability, and flexibility, depending on customers’...
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April 30, 2024 United States
European satellite firm SES is set to acquire Virginia-based Intelsat via 100 percent of the equity of Intelsat Holdings S.a.r.l. for a cash consideration of €2.8 billion ($3.1 billion) and certain contingent value rights. The companies said the partnership will create a “stronger multi-orbit...
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April 29, 2024 Austin
A hydrogen demonstration facility has launched in Austin, Texas and will help provide power to the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) data center via a fuel cell. The project – located at the University of Texas (UT) J.J. Pickle Research Campus in Austin – is a collaboration between GTI...
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April 26, 2024 Canada
Nuclear small modular reactor (SMR) company Terrestrial Energy has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Schneider Electric to jointly develop commercial opportunities and advance the deployment of IMSR plants as the reactor company is currently developing a 190MWe Integral Molten Salt...
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April 25, 2024 United States
SES this week announced that it has launched its O3b mPower satellite connectivity service and will be deploying it worldwide. SES will be introducing services in the coming months to O3b mPower customers to deliver reliable connectivity services ranging from tens of Mbps to multiple gigabits per...
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April 25, 2024 United States
Danish engineering group Danfoss has selected HPE GreenLake for SAP S/4HANA Cloud at all it’s data centers for its cloud journey. It is now a joint offering from HPE and SAP and aims to bring SAP workloads to private cloud environments. “We have selected RISE with SAP and HPE GreenLake not only...
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April 24, 2024 California
New cloud company Oxide is deploying its on-premise hardware at CoreSite’s data center in Silicon Valley. It also announced this week that it would ‘leverage colocation solutions’ at CoreSite's Silicon Valley SV2 data center. “The Oxide Cloud Computer empowers developers to build, run, and...
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April 23, 2024 United States
The World Squash Federation (WSF) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Alibaba Cloud for cloud and AI technologies and is now set to use Alibaba's cloud computing to augment content, management and commercialization. WSF will also use the cloud provider's platform to develop a squash...
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April 22, 2024 United States
United Airlines has almost completed its cloud migration as CFO Mike Leskinen revealed the company has migrated 70-90 percent of its workloads to the cloud, with the rest still on-premise. The company has had a challenging first quarter and is now attempting to offset those costs with "great...
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April 19, 2024 United States
Mark Zuckerberg confirmed that energy constraints have become the largest blockers to building out AI data centers as he echoed industry commentary on the challenges of building larger and larger data centers. "Over the last few years, there's been this issue of GPU production," he said. "Even...
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April 19, 2024 Louisiana
T-Mobile announced that it has completed its 5G network upgrades in Louisiana, a multi-year investment totaling $290 million, including $50m towards an upgrade in its 5G service in the Greater New Orleans area. The company notes that the expansion provides access to 5G ultra capacity coverage to...
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April 17, 2024 Georgia
Electric utility Georgia Power (GP) has received approval from the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) to increase its generation capacity with both fossil fuels and renewable energy to meet power demand from data centers. This agreement will also allow Georgia Power to contract generation...
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April 17, 2024 United States
Managed services provider CGI confirmed earlier this month that it has begun the first part of its network fiber deployment in Alaska, installing approximately 45 miles of fiber over the frozen tundra between Eek and Napaskiak. This is part of a project between Bethel Native Corporation and GCI...
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April 17, 2024 United States
Akamai has launched a media-optimized cloud offering for video processing, based on Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada Generation GPUs which have been selected for their ability to process video content more efficiently and effectively. “Media companies need low-latency, reliable compute resources that maintain...
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April 16, 2024 New Mexico
The Venado supercomputer has been launched at Los Alamos National Laboratory. This is a system which consists of 2,560 direct, liquid-cooled Nvidia Grace Hopper Superchips; 920 Nvidia Grace CPU Superchips, each of which contains 144 Arm cores; and is networked with HPE Slingshot 11 interconnect....
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